Hey there Michael, and thanks for the quick response. VBoxManage list hostdvds returns: /dev/cdrom /dev/sdf1 When I try the command VBoxManage modifyvm my_xppro -dvd host:/dev/cdrom (or /dev/sdf1), I do not get the error about invalid host dvd name, but I get messages from Windows about not being able to read the disk. When I explore the drive in file browser, my drives come up as cdrom0 and cdrom1 respectively. Under vbox 1.4, I used scd0, but that is not working here for some reason.
Thanks, Guy On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 15:52 +0200, Michael Thayer wrote: > Hello Guy, > > I presume that you did put in the VM name, which you left out in the > text of the e-mail. What does 'VBoxManage list hostdvds' say? And do > you have read and write permission on that device? > > Regards, > > Michael > > Guy schlosser wrote: > > Hi all, I have a question that is really simple in nature. I know I'm > > gonna kick myself square in the butt when I find out the answer, because > > I know I'm probably missing something really obvious. I'm trying to get > > my physical DVD-RW drive to be detected in my win-xp guest. After all > > the updates this weekend, my Ubuntu 7.04 system has been upgraded to > > the .21 kernel, and Virtualbox 1.5. I changed the DVD drive, so that I > > could update my guest additions, but now I want to change the -dvd > > option so that it points to my dvd-rw. The command I entered was > > VBoxManage modifyvm -dvd host:/dev/scd0. I've also tried /dev/cdrom0, > > and even without the /dev. If someone can please let me know what I'm > > doing wrong, let me know ASAP. I do have a DVD in the drive, and I can > > see it through the file browser in Gnome. Thanks in advance for the > > help, and excellent job for 1.5. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Guy > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vbox-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
